leading comments

[Steven List]

I'm posting this to net.sources, but it's also applicable to mod.sources
and net.sources.games.  I'll assume that all three are read by the same
group of people.

Most of us, when posting a source file (shell archive or otherwise), 
usually put some nice commentary at the beginning.  Unfortunately, this
means that the file must be (1) saved to a file, (2) edited to remove
the commentary, and (3) processed by the shell.

I'd like to suggest that when we put some commentary at the beginning,
each line be preceded by the shell comment character (#).  This would
allow the file to be saved (at least from rn with `w') without the
header information and processed immediately by the shell.  For those
who don't want to save the source, this allows piping directly to the
shell (again, rn's `w').

Small savings, but nice.  Don't you think?
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